Futurism

It has been far too long since we analyzed future technologies and applied them to unforeseeable ways. Stop in and get comfy.


IBM-led international research team stores one bit of data on a single atom
nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7644/full/nature21371.html

>An international team led by IBM has created the world’s smallest magnet, using a single atom of rare-earth element holmium, and stored one bit of data on it over several hours.
>Using a scanning tunneling microscope, the researchers also showed that a device using two magnetic atoms could be written and read independently, even when they were separated by just one nanometer.
>The researchers believe this tight spacing could eventually yield magnetic storage that is 1,000 times denser than today’s hard disk drives and solid state memory chips.

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nature.com/articles/ncomms14997
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/aa6802/meta
youtu.be/rBZKrpf3Y4U
qz.com/920468/artificial-intelligence-created-by-microsoft-and-university-of-cambridge-is-learning-to-write-code-by-itself-not-steal-it/
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Scientists grow beating heart tissue on spinach leaves
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961217300856

>A research team headed by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) scientists has solved a major tissue engineering problem holding back the regeneration of damaged human tissues and organs: how to grow small, delicate blood vessels, which are beyond the capabilities of 3D printing.
>The researchers used plant leaves as scaffolds (structures) in an attempt to create the branching network of blood vessels — down to the capillary scale — required to deliver the oxygen, nutrients, and essential molecules required for proper tissue growth.
>In a series of unconventional experiments, the team cultured beating human heart cells on spinach leaves that were stripped of plant cells. The researchers first decellularized spinach leaves (removed cells, leaving only the veins) by perfusing (flowing) a detergent solution through the leaves’ veins. What remained was a framework made up primarily of biocompatible cellulose, which is already used in a wide variety of regenerative medicine applications, such as cartilage tissue engineering, bone tissue engineering, and wound healing.
>Other types of plants could also provide the framework for a wide range of other tissue engineering technologies, the authors suggest.

Scientists reverse aging in mice by repairing damaged DNA
science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6331/1312

>The researchers found that a compound known as NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), which is naturally present in every cell of our body, has a key role as a regulator in protein-to-protein interactions that control DNA repair. In an experiment, they found that treating mice with a NAD+ precursor called NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide) improved their cells’ ability to repair DNA damage.
>“The cells of the old mice were indistinguishable from the young mice, after just one week of treatment,” said senior author Sinclair.
>Human trials of NMN therapy will begin within the next few months to “see if these results translate to people,” he said. A safe and effective anti-aging drug is “perhaps only three to five years away from being on the market if the trials go well.”
>The researchers say that in addition to reversing aging, the DNA-repair research has attracted the attention of NASA. The treatment could help deal with radiation damage to astronauts in its Mars mission, which could cause muscle weakness, memory loss, and other symptoms

first in a space elevator thread

Praise Kek.

I really think late 80's-late 90's may be the last generation to die. We may even have the first digital people by 2100.

New artificial photosynthesis process converts CO2 in air to fuel
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/TA/C7TA00437K#!divAbstract

>A University of Central Florida chemistry professor has invented a revolutionary way to remove carbon dioxide from air by triggering artificial photosynthesis in a synthetic material — breaking down carbon dioxide while also producing fuel for energy.
>Assistant Professor Fernando Uribe-Romo and his students used a synthetic material called a metal–organic framework, which converts carbon dioxide into harmless organic materials — similar to how plants convert CO2 and sunlight into food.
>In an experiment, the research team assembled a blue LED photoreactor — a glowing blue cylinder that looks like a tanning bed, using strips of LED lights inside the chamber of the cylinder to mimic the sun’s blue wavelength — and fed in CO2. The CO2 was found to convert into two modified forms of carbon — formate and formamides (two kinds of solar fuel) — and in the process, cleaning the air.

I really do believe that if you are under 40, there is a very good chance you will have a near indefinite life span. Our technological leaps are growing and the medical field will soon be left behind in the dust, for our AI like Watsons to pick up and carry on.

Space elevator is back! Long time no see man! I really missed these threads :')

listen

m.youtube.com/watch?v=GNsM60JBa9I

Holy shit I missed you lad.

I have browsed Sup Forums but the joy of posting had left me. I watched the other Space Elevators post, but for too long I languished in apathy. Let us turn a new leaf now.

New nuclear magnetic resonance technique offers ‘molecular window’ for live disease diagnosis
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201701097/abstract

>University of Toronto Scarborough researchers have developed a new “molecular window” technology based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) that can look inside a living system to get a high-resolution profile of which specific molecules are present, and extract a full metabolic profile.
>“Getting a sense of which molecules are in a tissue sample is important if you want to know if it’s cancerous, or if you want to know if certain environmental contaminants are harming cells inside the body,” says Professor Andre Simpson, who led research in developing the new technique.
>The technique could also provide highly detailed information on how the brain works, revealing the actual chemicals involved in a particular response. “It could mark an important step in unraveling the biochemistry of the brain,” says Simpson.

ITT: a whole bunch of clickbait, buzzwords and oversimplified theoretical concepts taken as facts.

Very nice video Double 0

A ‘smart contact lens’ for diabetes and glaucoma diagnosis
nature.com/articles/ncomms14997

>Korean researchers have designed a “smart contact lens” that may one day allow patients with diabetes and glaucoma to self-monitor blood glucose levels and internal eye pressure.
>The design is based on transparent, stretchable sensors that are deposited on commercially available soft-contact lenses.
>Electrodes based on a hybrid graphene-silver nanowire material can measure glucose in tears. Internal eye pressure changes are measured by a sandwich structure whose electronic characteristics are modified by pressure.
>The team expects that the research could also lead to developing biosensors capable of detecting and treating various other human diseases, or used as a component in other biomedical devices.

Is there any catch to this? Do you have to be younger than a certain age for this to work?

Humanities technology is quickly advancing faster than ever in human history. Achievements that would have astounded the scientific community are made every day.
It does not take much to extrapolate this growth rate to see that mankind is about to enter a paradigm shift in terms of technological abilities.

this post deserves a thread on it's own. proceeding to..

at least link back to this thread :^)

Deep learning-based bionic hand grasps objects automatically
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/aa6802/meta

>British biomedical engineers have developed a new generation of intelligent prosthetic limbs that allows the wearer to reach for objects automatically, without thinking — just like a real hand.
>The hand’s camera takes a picture of the object in front of it, assesses its shape and size, picks the most appropriate grasp, and triggers a series of movements in the hand — all within milliseconds.
>Biomedical engineers at Newcastle University and associates developed a convolutional neural network (CNN), trained it with images of more than 500 graspable objects, and taught it to recognize the grip needed for different types of objects.

youtu.be/rBZKrpf3Y4U

>Space Elevator

The problem with the space elevator is that first we'd need a lot of launches just to get the carbon nanotube rope up there in the first place and then this thing would be anywhere from 40,000 to 60,000 miles long - umm, that's long - and nobody's yet built a little ya know, foot stool, out of carbon nanotubes, as far as I'm aware - so having something that's 40,000 miles long is a big leap, and there's other issues. It ends up being this big sweeper going through Earth orbit and any orbital debris is going to be really good at catching and it's going to be very high impact. And once you get to the end of the elevator, you've gotta do something otherwise you'll be flung out into space, so you still need rockets. So really all the space elevator would be is a means of reducing the cost of transporting propellant to orbit. In that way, it might work as a long term optimization, not anything worth working on right now.

Holy fuck is this really you?

HE'S BACK

Space elevator have you seen this?

qz.com/920468/artificial-intelligence-created-by-microsoft-and-university-of-cambridge-is-learning-to-write-code-by-itself-not-steal-it/

>AI that can code itself

openreview.net/pdf?id=ByldLrqlx

I lost the original HDD that had all my saved threads and pictures so forgive me.

It is a fascinating concept though and one I think encapsulates the idea of future technology. Perhaps one day a SE or skyhook will be made, and I like to think it wont be more than 100 years from now with the way material science is going.

Now that is pretty darn amazing.
>“We’re targeting the people who can’t or don’t want to code, but can specify what their problem is,”

NORMIES REEEEE

Still the potential is ridiculous

The first 2D microprocessor — based on a layer of just 3 atoms
nature.com/articles/ncomms14948

>Researchers at Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, have developed the world’s first two-dimensional microprocessor — the most complex 2D circuitry so far. Microprocessors based on atomically thin 2D materials promise to one day replace traditional microprocessors as well as open up new applications in flexible electronics.
>Consisting of 115 transistors, the microprocessor can run, simple user-defined programs stored in an external memory, perform logical operations, and communicate with peripheral devices. The microprocessor is based on molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), a three-atoms-thick 2D semiconductor transistor layer consisting of molybdenum and sulphur atoms, with a surface area of around 0.6 square millimeters.
>Two-dimensional materials are flexible, making future 2D microprocessors and other integrated circuits ideal for uses such as medical sensors and flexible displays. They promise to extend computing to the atomic level, as silicon reaches its physical limits.
>However, to date, it has only been possible to produce individual 2D digital components using a few transistors. The first 2D MoS2 transistor with a working 1-nanometer (nm) gate was created in October 2016

Space elevators are pretty much a certainty. There's challenges but is doable with modern day technology. The reason one hasn't been built is because we don't launch very much anyway. At some point, and pretty quickly I'd imagine, its going to become more viable to build one than keep fighting to get out of Earth's gravity well.

And propellant is the major barrier to launching large payloads because of the rocket equation. Although we may even bypass space elevators and make an orbital loop or mass driver.

All the new technology will be used to further monitor, subvert and control you.

‘Negative mass’ created at Washington State University
arxiv.org/abs/1612.04055

>Washington State University (WSU) physicists have created a fluid with “negative mass,” which means that if you push it, it accelerates toward you instead of away, in apparent violation of Newton’s laws.
>The phenomenon can be used to explore some of the more challenging concepts of the cosmos.
>The researchers created the conditions for negative mass by cooling about 10,000 rubidium atoms to just above absolute zero, creating a Bose-Einstein condensate (in which individual atoms move as one object). In this state, particles move extremely slowly and, following the principles of quantum mechanics, behave like waves. They also synchronize and move in unison as a “superfluid” that flows without losing energy.
>The lasers trapped the atoms as if they were in a bowl measuring less than a hundred micrometers across. At this point, the rubidium superfluid has regular mass. Breaking the bowl will allow the rubidium to rush out, expanding as the rubidium in the center pushes outward.
>To create negative mass, the researchers applied a second set of lasers that kicked the atoms back and forth and changed the way they spin. Now when the rubidium rushes out fast enough, if behaves as if it has negative mass.

I don't think they'll be able too much longer. The ability for each individual person to keep things secret is increasing rapidly, we now even have economies that the government can't control. If someone told you in 1990 that in 22 years a currency would be created is completely anonymous and independent of the state, would you believe them? But its here.

And what are they going to do when we have colonies off-Earth? Mars says they don't want to have speed limits. What would the government do? Chase them down? They can't. 3-D printing, CNC routers, automation, encryption, quantum computers, to be honest I'm more worried about what individual people are going to have the capability to do than the state.

I like when people dream but get back to reality.

First nanoengineered retinal implant could help the blind regain functional vision
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2560/13/5/056008/meta

>A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego and La Jolla-based startup Nanovision Biosciences Inc. have developed the first nanoengineered retinal prosthesis — a step closer to restoring the ability of neurons in the retina to respond to light.
>Despite advances in the development of retinal prostheses over the past two decades, the performance of devices currently on the market to help the blind regain functional vision is still severely limited — well under the acuity threshold of 20/200 that defines legal blindness.
>The new prosthesis uses arrays of nanowires that simultaneously sense light and electrically stimulate the retina. The nanowires provide higher resolution than anything achieved by other devices — closer to the dense spacing of photoreceptors in the human retina, according to the researchers.*

In reality, one isn't going to become viable until we can find a reason to build one. We know how, just like we know how to get to the moon and build a moon colony, we just don't have the interest in it right now.

Jesus.

Neuron-recording nanowires could help screen drugs for neurological diseases
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04752?journalCode=nalefd

>A research team* led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed nanowire technology that can non-destructively record the electrical activity of neurons in fine detail.
>The new technology, published April 10, 2017 in Nano Letters, could one day serve as a platform to screen drugs for neurological diseases and help researchers better understand how single cells communicate in large neuronal networks.
>The researchers currently create the neurons in vitro (in the lab) from human induced pluripotent stem cells. But the ultimate goal is to “translate this technology to a device that can be implanted in the brain,” said Shadi Dayeh, PhD, an electrical engineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the team’s lead investigator.
>The technology can uncover details about a neuron’s health, activity, and response to drugs by measuring ion channel currents and changes in the neuron’s intracellular voltage (generated by the difference in ion concentration between the inside and outside of the cell).

space elevator is back?!

That's actually fucked, we think we know the basics of physics but apparently not...

Groundbreaking technology rewarms large-scale animal tissues preserved at low temperatures
stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/379/eaah4586.full

>A research team led by the University of Minnesota has discovered a way to rewarm large-scale animal heart valves and blood vessels preserved at very low (cryogenic) temperatures without damaging the tissue. The discovery could one day lead to saving millions of human lives by creating cryogenic tissue and organ banks of organs and tissues for transplantation.
>Long-term preservation methods like vitrification cool biological samples to an ice-free glassy state, using very low temperatures between -160 and -196 degrees Celsius, but tissues larger than 1 milliliter (0.03 fluid ounce) often suffer major damage during the rewarming process, making them unusable for tissues.
>To achieve that, they developed a revolutionary new method using silica-coated iron-oxide nanoparticles dispersed throughout a cryoprotectant solution around the tissue. The nanoparticles act as tiny heaters around the tissue when they are activated using noninvasive radiofrequency inductive energy, rapidly and uniformly warming the tissue.

this meme again.
99% of us will never benefit from these medical marvels. We get outdated treatment. They can regrow cartilage but gotta get that hip replacement because mr goldstein needs to redo it again in 15 years. Look at pro athletes, every ligament in their knees get torn and they're back on the field next year competing with other world class athletes. you ever get that shit? Nope you go to a shitty hospital and the doctor slaps you together at St Peters and you pray for the best while not getting the best..

It really comes down to costs. Once the technology has reached a parity point with cost, then it becomes usable on mass quantities. Technology goes up, costs go down over time.

If Elon musk can start bussing people to mars and beyond we might not need to thin the herd anymore.

I really hope they suceed, I'm looking forward to death with Wojak's face memes.

:^)

Well, guess its time to start investing to at least have the chance to afford them instead of just complaining.

A SPACE ELEVATOR THREAD?

thank god i needed some hope for the future

Fusion energy is the way to go.

>Majority Shitskin society
>Advanced technology

Its been along time because humanity is rushing towards a dark age.

With Jewish engineered inflation that will never happen.

Scientists use stem cells to create human/pig chimera embryos
cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)31752-4

>In an open-access paper published online January 26, 2017 in the journal Cell, Salk Institute researchers report breakthroughs on multiple fronts in the race to integrate stem cells from one species into the early-stage development of another species (or chimeras).
>The human cells survived and formed a human/pig chimera embryo. Embryos were implanted in sows and allowed to develop for between three and four weeks. “This is long enough for us to try to understand how the human and pig cells mix together early on without raising ethical concerns about mature chimeric animals,” says Izpisua Belmonte.
>To do this, the researchers are using CRISPR to perform genome editing on the pig genome, as they did with mice, to open gaps that human cells can fill in. That work is in progress.

We don't need to thin the herd. The Earth can sustain billions of people in a small area. Up to 1 Quadrillion if we create a eucamenopolis. But basic archologies can sustain millions of people in less than a mile. If we're going to even build this shit in the first place, we need massive amounts of highly educated people.

Just like how personal computers were to cost prohibitive to own for the causal person. Clearly the Jews would not want us to have instant global communicative freedoms.

Holy fuck Desu he's back

The thing that's shitty about this is that inevitably such age-capping drugs will inevitably be something only the rich can afford. There's no way those with power would ever permit the average person to have access to medication that can reverse aging, not just because they would lose coercive control over the culture and the world but because the population would explode.

Imagine being/looking 20, but being really 150+ years old and having dozens of children.
Now imagine millions of people being exactly like you.

OP is Ray Kurzweil

Thanks OP

They reslly need to die. Whitrs ushered in the modern world not Jews, there are far more computer contributions by White Europeans than Jews.

oy vey they found me out

Dont worry Ray I believe in you.

Evrry fat welfare mom bitch and her niglet babies would wanna live 4ever

A 3D bioprinter that prints fully functional human skin
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1758-5090/9/1/015006

>A prototype 3D bioprinter that can create totally functional human skin has been developed by scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and BioDan Group in Spain. The skin has been used to treat burns as well as traumatic and surgical wounds in a large number of patients in Spain, according to the scientists.
>The 3D-printed skin replicates human bilayered skin, using “bioinks” (biological components) containing human plasma as well as primary human fibroblasts and keratinocytes obtained from skin biopsies. These are controlled by a computer, which deposits them on a print bed in an orderly manner to then produce the skin.
>The researchers were able to generate 100 cm2 of printed skin in less than 35 minutes (including the 30 min required for fibrin gelation).

How long till this stuff is on the market?

Well since its already been used in Spain to treat people, I imagine not long at all.

MIT researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known
advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601536

>MIT scientists said they’ve just created one the strongest materials known (ten times stronger than steel, but also one of the lightest, with a density of just 5 percent of that of steel) by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon.
>In its two-dimensional form, graphene is thought to be the strongest of all known materials. But researchers until now have had a hard time translating that two-dimensional strength into useful three-dimensional materials.
>But it’s not about the material itself; it’s about their unusual 3-D geometrical configuration, the researchers discovered. That suggests that similar strong, lightweight materials (in addition to graphene) could be made from a variety of materials by creating similar geometric features.
>The solution for compressing small flakes of graphene turned out to be a combination of heat and pressure. This process produced a strong, stable structure whose form resembles that of some corals and microscopic creatures called diatoms. These new shapes, which have an enormous surface area in proportion to their volume, proved to be remarkably strong.

Do you know if metamaterials will allow fusion to finally work?

Cellular reprogramming turns back the aging clock in mice
cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(16)31664-6

>Salk Institute scientists have extended the average lifespan of live mice by 30 percent, according to a study published December 15 in Cell. They did that by rolling back the “aging clock” to younger years, using cellular reprogramming.
>The finding suggests that aging is reversible by winding back an animal’s biological clock to a more youthful state and that lifespan can be extended. While the research does not yet apply directly to humans, it promises to lead to improved understanding of human aging and the possibility of rejuvenating human tissues.
>To achieve this, the scientists worked with “progeria” mouse models — mice that had been genetically modified to carry a mutation that leads to premature aging (allowing the aging effects to be isolated and studied).*
>Several organs improved. For instance, tissue from skin, spleen, kidney and stomach all had improved appearance when inspected under the microscope. The cardiovascular system, which often fails and causes early death in these prematurely aging mice, also showed improvements in structure and function.

Twas a good thread, see you around space cowboys.

Thanks, this is the most interesting post I've seen in a while

I will try to post more often, Sup Forums needs more hope in their futures.

Im sure that in some chinese lap the atheist nation brought into existence a creature like this

Inertial Electrostatic Confinement fusion - recently proven lightweight reactor.
voat.co/v/science/1832904/8974323

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When will Sup Forums finally grow out of unachievable fascism and into Technocracy? Imagine the impact we could have if we actually shilled a Technocracy in the mainstream, which unlike National Socialism, will actually be welcomed by everyone else.

somewhere, on an ocean, a third world country with no laws, antarctica or china the chimeras live. Humans combined with axolotl genes. A man with the sonar vision of a bat, perfect to locate tunnels in Afghanistan. Humans with the minds of dolhpins.

Magnificcento

This is how you get gravity shielding and warp drive.

Is the ride starting?

Bump for interesting shit.

Over half the population is overweight and barely functional due to their own incompetence, do you really believe that every single person on Earth is going to be able to keep their anti-aging regimen going? These are people who can't even get off the couch to exercise. Most people don't even die of old age these days, they die because of their terribly unhealthy lifestyles

I see no reason why these treatments would not become widely available... especially because they will probably require a regular regimen, that is quite literally an endless stream of revenue for big pharma

>Y-yes but 97% of scientists believe in man made climate change so it has to be true

Because that's what the globalists want? An elite technocratic society where plebes own nothing

>Space Elevator is back

Um no, I'm pretty sure that if they wanted that they'd have installed it so far. The reality is that no one is talking about it and there aren't any attempts anywhere to institute one.

And by the way, there is a common misconception that a Technocracy is an authoritarian state where some PhD nerds appoint other PhD nerds without any vote whatsoever, no, a Technocracy is a technologically-oriented state (techno - technology, cracy - rule; Rule of Technology). The reason people see it as the former is because of the bullshit movements like the authoritarian "Technocracy Movement" in the 30s and that faggy communist "Venus Project" recently that hijacked the name.

>So what is a Technocracy then?
For the current world, a state that strives to colonize the solar system or to invent an AI, both only achievable by a very intense funding of R&D that no private company can currently afford, hence the technological focus of the state - to redirect welfare spending towards technology spending instead. The US during the Space Race is a perfect example of an accidental Technocracy, and notice how that was its golden age as well.

American men can get their foreskins back!